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Ancient prophecy

If the stream of light poured your soul – know it’s a different Mind possessed of thee.

The ray illuminated the face of John, then followed a bright flash, and more and more… It was like a horror movie. John was hovering in the sky like a bird (though he had no wings), thanked to the strange ray that brought him to the ship. There was light as during the day, but lamps were not. The light appeared out of nowhere.

Suddenly he saw the extraordinary creatures. There were six. All were dressed in tight-fitting costumes. Jonathan was sitting in the chair. One of the creatures came to him. In this creature was something… human.

Maybe a gaze, or maybe something else. John did not know. The forehead of a stranger was a little more, if not to say twice the human race, there was something similar to the ears, but they were almost invisible compared to the forehead. The nose was small, thin, but long enough. The valve was put on the nose or maybe they had such a nose, large eyes, piercing through. The body was very thin, but muscular. Height was 160—170 cm. The creature looked at John with appraising glance. So he did. John thought, “If it’s so strange to me, how strange is I to it?” Yes, there is something to think about. Looking at a huge head, John realized that that creature was very clever. “Its head will generate more transactions than the last Mac (PC Macintosh). And that is to say about their technologies, equipment, for the people is not achievable”, – thought Smith. John for some reason really wanted to write his name in small letters: “john, john, john…”

The look of the creature was quiet, too quiet! John breathed on board so well as had never before. “They are probably full of sources of negative ions, – John thought, – no air conditioning can not be compared with this.”

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The creature began to speak some ancient language, and perhaps was it the language of the future? But, however strange it was, John understood everything. It (John did not know the sex of the creature) told him that once they were homosapiens – John almost laughed him or her, damn it damn it, it was clear – that creature possessed telepathy, and felt the other people’s thoughts, smiled slightly (if it could be called a smile). It explained that during the evolution the nature had to choose what person had to live: physically strong or very intelligent, but weak. It chose the former. But siamats, as they are now called, did not give up. They built something like a spacecraft, such as Noah’s Ark at that time, and went into space. They flew a few galaxies and landed on a planet which did them for existence. They called it Norius. At first it was almost a desert. But thanks to hard work and help from other civilizations, siamats became one of the most powerful civilizations in the Universe (in scientific terms). John did not know whether to believe him in that nonsense, but continued to listen. Soon, another civilization, kirundiyts, from the Urre planet began to encroach on Norrius and the colonies of siamats, which were few compared with the colonies of kerundiyts. Some of them were from other galaxies. One of the biggest weaknesses of the siamats people were tolerance and addiction to anything, even to the bad. Of course, there were brave men who wanted to protect Norrius, but there were not many, quite a few- somewhere around 250 thousand people. And all of them soon died in the battle against kirundiyts, none of them survived. It wasn’t a concept of the army, the weapons – nearly as well. Some kind of civilization of saugmans during the development of siamats taught them to build warships, which soon were called siams and defensive techniques. First they built it. But soon the Norrius Council of Elders decided that weapons demanded too much money that used in the entire Universe. The Council has vetoed the construction of any military equipment. “As far as they are stupid”, – John thought. “Yes, it is”, – answered his inner voice or a creature who possessed telepathic abilities, in what John had already convinced. Prior to that Jonathan did not want to interrupt and invoke the wrath of that monster, whom he had seen in a dream almost every night.